by Leesa K. Donner | Dec 27, 2021 | Articles, Media, Opinion
It must be stipulated at the outset that the media writ large took a nosedive in 2021 after a contentious and turbulent election caused a tsunami of apathy that had readers, viewers, and listeners tuning out in droves. Even established American newspaper titans posted...
by Leesa K. Donner | Dec 7, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Vice President Kamala Harris has reached for the stars and, in doing so, has wound up making history by attaining new lows in an office that is universally known as “not worth a bucket of warm spit.” That colorful observation was made by John Nance Garner,...
by Joe Schaeffer | Jul 30, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
The Olympic Games are proving to be an easy punching bag for Americans. Many have been long fed up by the politicization of sports overall and by big-box media outlets’ reliance on touchy-feely personal accounts to bolster ideology at the expense of athletic...
by Joe Schaeffer | Oct 8, 2020 | Articles, Culture and Entertainment News, Politics, Race, Social Issues
Reports that NBA Finals ratings have sunk to unprecedented depths may be traced to the Black Lives Matter politicization of the game that has sparked fan boycotts. The same may be true for Major League Baseball. But there is a contributing factor that goes into this...
by Leesa K. Donner | Aug 20, 2020 | Articles, Election 2020, Media, Politics, Social Issues
If television viewership numbers reveal anything about the Democratic National Convention, they tell us that Americans aren’t terribly interested in a canned political event. The virtual presentation is not taking the U.S. by storm. But don’t take that as gospel from...